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...newspaper by then? Why, further, has Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) resigned in protest at not having been told about the mining? Such a resignation hardly seems an apt way to protest failure on the part of a subsidiary body to conform to rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence committees share information? It seems patently ludicrous that Senator Goldwater should not have known something about the mining if the House knew about it already. And above it all the horrible sphinx, William J. Casey, sits grinning: "I don't have...
...Lotto's The Annunciation on its own is a joy. It is one of the strangest lyrical effusions of the High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
WHEN ISRAEL OCCUPIED the West Bank in 1962 it brought upon itself one of the strangest security paradoxes of the post-World War II era. How could one of the most democratic, highly principled nations in history balance the absolute imperative of border defense with what arounded to the subjugation of over a million Arabs? This question was not addressed adequately at the time, and in the intervening decade and a half it has grown in complexity and assessment. The problem's framework remains the same, but important changes have occurred to make it more solveable today than...
...recent crackdowns in China, the one that began last week was probably the strangest. Virtually any dog found trotting through Peking may now be legally drowned, electrocuted, strangled or clubbed to death. Those who do not get rid of their pets before the last week of December will be subject to fines of up to $25, three weeks' wages for an average urban worker. In anticipation of the purge, 200,000 dogs, or half of the city's total, have been slaughtered or exiled to areas outside the city. Some owners have sold their four-legged friends...
...strangest aspect of the whole sordid affair was its almost certain lack of effectiveness. No doubt the Pentagon chief returned to Washington more convinced than ever that he's making the right decisions--a result neither the hecklers not many responsible students and citizens could possible desire Moreover, it is entirely plausible that neutral members of the Sanders Theater audience and the TV news audience that evening felt sympathy for the Administration line, it only because the Secretary maintained his composure in the face of extreme discourtesy. Curiously enough, a silent protest during the whole speech involving people draped with...